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3 decals ( god.... I love armour for that ) .....and a bunch of painting using Vallejo paints and a wet pallette. And draw the session to a close with my favourite matt varnish ...a recommend from Alexander Pedan who makes great trucks So a good evening , we are now ready to start the weathering , finish the tracks, build some figures and complete the model , before moving onto a small dio . A shot for the 1967 Six Day War .. Laterz PW

so , mix by eye Light Sand ....its been faded a bit , mix of XF s and some wet brush chipping one heavy travelled areas . Not gone too mad , Israelis looked after their tanks as valuble kit .

Ok ex factory these came in OD ...so OD it is . Followed by the best hairspray for chipping as recommend by Evan at Panzermeister36 ... Which os still a dark base , but authentic colour and only there for some light chipping later

So now according to Martin Kovacs it all get black based Nope , as much as I like his work I find this , followed by light shade from up top and below with a darker coat ....a bit cliched in 2024 ..and results in all your models looking like Uncle Nightshifts ... So generic grey primer, good coverage and slightly textured, plus good for mixed media -some of the parts are copper sheet replacement ..sticks ot it all

Back on the road .. today my stowage arrived , lotsa it . Appears to be a copy of the Legend Productions set , which is a little disappointing to find it's a knock off. Last stuff I bought was original work . Cleaned it all up and affixed with heavy viscosity superglue . Remembered to wear a mask when grinding it all clean

This topic should be moved to LSM WIP 👍

Wow , a seriously large scale model . Looks great , love the F4B lookalike . You know we expect regular updates , yeah ?

make 5 use 3 ....CA other two to fingers etc . 🫠

How cool, early locomotives are always so steam punk !

And and here......... we are threading camels through needles ....pre rigging . So we have some 0.2mm copper wire , cut out of some cheap multi strand wire . This bent around the hook on the old airbrush needle and twisted together to make a loop (0.4mm) Drill 0.5mm holes in model and CA glue the loops into the model as anchor points for the rigging . A nice thickness gauge is useful for sorting it all out . I tried making loops from 0.3mm once, but it was too heavy for the scale . You can of course buy all these from Gaspatch and save the bother. I tend to make a bunch of loops in a batch when not making a model and then it becomes less effort to interrupt the build . Next is small tubes to represent the turnbuckles ( you can buy them as well) and it will all be rigged with 0.135mm Infini elastic rigging thread. But first - paint and then build the wings . The Eduard kit is good, thin single piece wings , good fit etc and cheap - shopping around & I bought it for £16 . So it it goes West I'm not crying into my WingNut pillow. Cheerz

I'm good thanks - had a bit of a vacation from the forum on other projects during the summer but now getting stuck in the sandpit GB . & you ? Good summer , good travels ?

Ouch - sorry to hear that Peter. On the bright side not thrombosis , but still ouch .

Hi Maru 👋

You make it look soooo damn easy ....when it is soooo damn hard ! Beautiful looking model .

Is that the M1324/5 purfume bottle carrier version ? Popular with 1 star generals and their campaign wives looks a good base for some kick ass weathering 😀

Cheers works out about £55 which is not bad .

Thats looking good , like and armoured hedgehog. Martin Kovac reckoned this was one of the best ever armour models to make , what's ya thoughts on that ? I fancied building one a couple of years ago and then forgot about them . The kit has got expensive since then sadly .

Tonka tonka tonka It looks as dubious a kit base as that shaguar I did last month TBH .🫤 For me with braille scale if I build it in a day or so it's ok , if I spend hours fixing crap manufacturing from 30 years ago , I loose interest quick . It's looking good though despite it's Italergyness.

Recent acquisition ..how many shelves had this sat on since 1978 ? Cleaned the box up with some X20-A and the old Roy Huxley artwork looks great Want to make an obscure flying boat from the 1930s ...Matchbox was/is the only show in town for the Stranraer in any scale . We claim manufacturers today, largely ignore main stream UK Cold war stuff ...Matchbox's marketeers had no such fear in the 1970s "So... next release will be an coastal aircraft that served for only 7 years , no one has heard of it , and less than 60 were ever made ...perfect ...it will sell like hot cakes .!!!" Sod today's 30 different version of Tiger tank/ Spitfire/ 109 /Mustang lark from the kit makers. They were bold back then ! In the 70's this was a premier kit , you can tell ..it's three colours. This is also the first release . Seen a few builds on line most reckon it's one of the better Matchbox ones , and the details don't look too bad / heavy. Decals are shot but no dramas to knock up some simple masks. Rigging might be ...er ...challenging , probably why they weren't made and you can pick them up 45 years later. But why such a Dinokit PW ...in Braille too ..??? All will be revealed once I've completed the GB builds I'm on ...probably . 😀

A very helpful website for looking up UK serials often with some history / pictures. ( Numebr is red and underlined if it has a pic) http://www.ukserials.com

Do love the Brisfit ...some pix I took at Shuttleworth in the summer . This one still flies !

Those that know from the Southwest , can pronounce Bristol as Brizzol..... Fits good , details good , that'll be Eduard then Not getting too carried away , when it's zipped up 99% of this won't be seen

This was what I planned on building till I got carried away with tanks .. I have two boxings , Eduard Weekend (no PE) and Roden ..from my earlier burst of biplane building in January. Both have marking for planes in Palestine. I'm going Eduard for this one . It's the same one as Mikes marvellous 1/32 build ...this will not be so marvellous and also my first 4 bay biplane . So it could go well or terrible , who knows . I do have Mikes amazing 170 page build log/notes to help me .

100% agree , my recent U-boat was entirely inspired by another's model (Scott Withers 'Drowning Wolf' in 2017) , even posted his original in my build. Hmm two 129s ..poor Mike !

😀Thanks That Negev desert ..... full of rubber destroying rocks was my thought